The Sinner

Mortal sin ( The Sinner English ) is a 2004 (U.S.: 2003 ) published novel from the genre of Medical Thriller American author Tess Gerritsen.

Mortal sin is the third part of the Jane Rizzoli series to the Boston police officer Jane Rizzoli and Dr. Maura Isles, the medical examiner. The focus is on relationship issues of the two protagonists: Rizzoli learns that she is pregnant. Isles divorced husband appeared unexpectedly after three years again. The actual story is given relatively little space - an approach that did not find approval among all readers.

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In a Boston monastery a young novice is found brutally slain, another nun survived seriously injured. A little later the body of a Indian woman is discovered, who had separated you hands and feet as well as parts of the face. Since one of the hijacked nuns had lived for a time in India, where she witnessed an alleged massacre of the inhabitants of a leper colony, the connection between the two acts is made quickly.

After an employee of an international chemical company is murdered, the FBI turns. Agent Gabriel Dean, the father of Jane Rizzoli's unborn child, travels to Boston. As it turns out, that the chemical company operating a now closed plant in close proximity to the scene of the massacre, the outline of a massive crime are identified. The two nuns who were murdered Indian woman and the staff were obviously uncomfortable privy to a mass murder of the witness of a chemical accident.

Dr. Maura Isles, who had meanwhile found back together with her ​​ex-husband must recognize her disappointment that this was indirectly involved in the crime, and the only reason returned to spy on them and to influence the investigation.